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Lighting the way for future physicists
November 12, 2025
Congratulations to Dio Hsieh, the first recipient of the Lee Chan Chiou Entrance Scholarship in Physics, the largest donor-funded undergraduate scholarship in Science at Waterloo.
Graduate impact series: Catching atoms and chasing curiosity
November 11, 2025
PhD student Kent Ueno and his team are doing something that sounds like science fiction: trapping individual rubidium-87 atoms in space and manipulating them with lasers.
Charting the Quantum Unknown
October 27, 2025
PhD student Sijia Wang explores the intersection of gravity, quantum mechanics, and information theory to illuminate the mysteries of quantum gravity.
Co-op student advances exoplanet research
October 7, 2025
Waterloo co-op student joins Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory through a prestigious summer research program.
Chirped Pulse Amplification 40th Celebration - with Donna Strickland
November 12, 2025
Join us for a special evening celebrating the 40th anniversary of Nobel Laureate Dr. Donna Strickland’s CPA, a milestone marking her extraordinary journey in science and innovation.
IQC Colloquium featuring Jonathan Home
Scaling quantum computing with trapped ions
Jonathan Home
ETH Zürich
Monday, November 17, 2025
2:30 p.m.
In-person: QNC 0101
PhysiX: Girls Matter 2025
November 22, 2025
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting students in Grades 7 and 8 on campus in-person on November 22nd for free activity workshops, inspiring talks, and a panel discussion, to encourage and engage female and non-binary students to explore physics.
IQC Colloquium featuring Rahul Jain
Device-independent quantum cryptography
Rahul Jain
Centre for Quantum Technologies
Monday, November 24, 2025
2:30 p.m.
In-person: QNC 0101